Alien Hotel.

Chapter 707 The Great Collapse

Not only was Yu Sheng caught off guard, but the Holy See standing opposite him was also caught off guard.

After the first living saint leaped into the chasm, a second, a third... followed immediately.

These radiant figures with wings on their backs appeared from behind the veil and only paused briefly in mid-air before rushing headlong into the crisscrossing abyssal rifts deep within the underground caverns. Amidst the chaotic echoes of psionic energy, sharp whistles pierced the air. After a short while, everyone heard continuous rumbling sounds coming from the depths of the earth.

It was as if an explosion had occurred at the bottom of the rift valley, and the figures rushing down seemed to be breaking through some kind of barrier.

Yu Sheng saw a brilliant pillar of light burst forth from the deep valley. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a white shadow flash. Turning his head, he saw the artificial angel floating beside him also unconsciously flying forward.

Yu Sheng was taken aback on the spot: "Oh..."

He had barely uttered a sound of surprise, and before he could even raise his hand, he saw the artificial angel float halfway down before turning back and floating back, shaking its head as it floated.

Although he couldn't hear her speak, Yu Sheng always felt that she was still muttering to herself at the same time.

...Is the Gate of Eden in the Earth's core attracting those "artificial angels"? And this one with a brain is the only one unaffected?
The thought flashed through Yu Sheng's mind instantly, but just then, an angry shout interrupted his train of thought: "Come back! You should obey my orders first!"

The Holy Throne, floating in mid-air, shimmered with an unstable light, as if the spiritual energy that constituted his body had been greatly disturbed. In his haste, he severed the maintenance of the holy light veil, but the living saints who had emerged from the light veil had already rushed towards the underground fissure.

An unsettling rumbling sound rose from underground, growing louder and louder.

The entire underground cavern space shook again, and the rocks and huge crystal prisms supporting the cave system showed signs of collapse and cracking once more.

Just then, the Holy See's blurred face suddenly became dazed again.

In the wilderness of souls, a rumbling thunderclap swept across the chaotic, gray sky.

A dazzling bolt of lightning struck down from the clouds, sending Luna and several knights flying. But in the blink of an eye, even more knights rose from the tall grass and charged one after another toward the giant figure standing in the wilderness.

A young female knight helped Luna up from the side, then leaped forward and threw her silver javelin with all her might.

The javelin's physical form in reality may have been casually tossed into a furnace by some hermit priest, but in this wilderness of souls, the silver light that pierces the sky represents a soul's memories and imagination of its childhood and hometown.

The giant figure staggered, and the light emanating from it dimmed even further.

At that very moment, Luna suddenly saw a blurry shadow emerge from the body of the "Holy Throne".

He was a middle-aged man with a sorrowful face, sunken eyes, messy short hair, and wearing a heavy, sturdy protective suit that looked like that worn by pioneers.

He flew out of the "Holy Throne" spirit in a daze, but almost the next second he was back in that giant-like body.

Another booming sound came from mid-air, and an exceptionally tall bronze knight leaped high into the air during the charge, his greatsword gleaming as he slammed it down on the Holy Throne's torso.

The body flickered violently, and an illusion of a black-haired young man fell out of it, but in the blink of an eye it dissipated into the air, turning into specks of light, and merging back into the body of the Holy Throne.

Luna felt a sudden blur before her eyes, and Yu Sheng's figure had appeared in the wilderness without her noticing.

"What's going on here..."

Yu Sheng was somewhat taken aback by what he saw and subconsciously muttered to himself.

The body of the Holy See began to show further signs of instability.

He staggered and swayed, retreating across the wilderness. The holy light enveloping his body was constantly peeled away and reassembled, and the triple halo above his head went out and lit up again.

His face, which could not be accurately described or observed, began to change, taking on various appearances—old man, young man, woman, even child.

Just as the knights were about to gather and launch the next attack, the body suddenly emitted a bright flash of light, and then vanished into the wilderness.

"It's all over! It's all over! It's all over!" Eileen's commotion woke Yu Sheng up. The little doll scrambled onto Yu Sheng's shoulder. "The surrounding area is starting to collapse too! There's nowhere left to stand!"

Yu Sheng held onto the small thing that was about to fall off his shoulder with one hand, while looking up at his surroundings.

The entire underground cavern was collapsing, and the deep rifts that originally pierced through the underground space were rapidly expanding and peeling off layer by layer, falling into the bottomless fissures in the earth's core below.

A giant crystal pillar that originally supported the rock dome suddenly broke, and a hundred-meter-high boulder collapsed into the rift valley.

The figure of the Holy Throne floated above the rift valley—he seemed to still be in a daze until the crystal pillar crashed down on his head, at which point he suddenly waved his hand.

Holy light burst forth, shattering the enormous crystal in half.

The scorching crystalline dust was splashed onto the black abyss leading to the Earth's core. The Holy Throne looked down at this scene, and after a long while, he let out a strange laugh.

"Ah, I see."

Before he finished speaking, the light around him dimmed rapidly, and under the cover of holy light, his once glorious and majestic body withered and shriveled like a dried corpse in the blink of an eye.

The next second, his body sank, and he plummeted straight down into the deep valley below.

Yu Sheng, however, had no time to reflect on this scene.

Because the collapsed area of ​​the underground cave had expanded to within a few steps of him.

"Hu Li, you take the men up first."

He turned to look at the nine-tailed fox and said quickly.

The fox girl lowered her head subconsciously: "Then, my benefactor, you must..." Yu Sheng opened his mouth, but before he could speak, his foot suddenly went light.

The next instant, the stone he was standing on collapsed, and he fell into the ravine.

The little doll let out a gasp—not because she had fallen, but because Yu Sheng suddenly grabbed her by the collar, swung her around, and threw her back up.

Eileen, all claws outstretched, fell into the fox's tail.

Luna rushed over at this moment, and together with the great fox demon, they peered into the great rift that stretched straight to the earth's core.

The rift valley stretched as far as the eye could see, with only faint, dark red lights and undulating streams of light visible.

Eileen pulled her head out of the great fox's tail and peeked down.

"This one might be a bit dangerous."

Huli and Luna exchanged a glance, then turned and left. As they walked, Huli kept muttering, "Hurry up, hurry up, or our benefactor will come back to life."

Eileen blurted out again, "Hey, wait, where's that ghost?"

Yu Sheng was still falling when he suddenly saw a white light appear beside him.

He turned his head and saw the artificial angel flying down beside him.

The face that was originally so blurry that the features were completely indistinguishable is now gradually becoming clearer, revealing a somewhat youthful appearance.

She tilted her head, somewhat curiously mimicking Yu Sheng's head-down posture.

Yu Sheng was initially touched, thinking that at least someone cared about his life, unlike his family who only thought about making a mess of things during those thirty minutes whenever he died.

Then he vaguely realized that the artificial angel in front of him seemed to think his head-down flying posture was awesome.

"Why are you following me!" Yu Sheng glared at him. "Go follow Hu Li and the others—the ones with a bunch of tails."

The artificial angel nodded, then turned and flew upwards.

At least he's obedient, even if he doesn't say what he should say—he's better than Eileen in that respect.

Meanwhile, Hu Li was already leading Luna and Eileen and was about to fly to the surface exit.

A huge crack runs across the top of the cave ahead, with rocks, soil, and broken structures constantly falling down from both sides. Through the crack, one can vaguely see the light of day outside.

"Hey, that ghost is catching up!" Eileen grabbed the fur on the big fox's back, turned her head to look behind her, and shouted happily, "She's alright."

The great fox demon didn't even turn its head: "Nonsense, it can fly."

Eileen tilted her head back and said, "I can too. I can fly by pulling a string."

Hu Li frowned: "Actually, I've always been curious, when you're swinging back and forth with a thread, where exactly is the other end of the thread tied?"

Luna, who was heavily injured in the previous battle, was sitting on Hu Li's back. Upon hearing this, she muttered, "Tethered to, Dwarf Lin's, quality."

Eileen thought about it, but couldn't figure it out.

So she simply stopped thinking about it, frowned slightly, and began to call out in her mind: "Yu Sheng, how's the situation on your end? Is that glowing thing pulling people down there?"

Yu Sheng: "I don't know, I'm still falling."

The little doll was immediately startled: "So deep?! Then did you see the Gate of Eden?"

Yu Sheng: "I don't know, I'm still falling."

"...Is your internet connection stuck?"

"Screw it! It's pitch black down there, surrounded by rocks all around. I'm not like Hu Li with divine sense or Luna with radar. I can't see what's down there," Yu Sheng's voice sounded a bit helpless, but then he suddenly paused, "Wait, I think I see something down there, a faint light."

The continuous descent seemed eternal, with only falling boulders and crystals visible in the darkness, constantly repeating themselves, even interfering with Yu Sheng's judgment of the time and distance of his fall. But suddenly, it all came to an end.

He saw an exit appear ahead of the underground rift, and at the end of the jagged rocks, a faint light appeared.

He then passed through the hole.

The boundless inner layer of the planet's shell hung high above his head. The inner side of the "star shell" was covered with all kinds of rock columns and quartz. The faint light wandered on the surface of this inner crust, repeatedly refracting and reflecting on the surface of those crystals.

Beneath the inner crust lies a terrifying, dark void.

But the cavity was not empty.

Yu Sheng saw something even darker... like a hole in the structure of spacetime, absorbing all the light, with edges that gave a constantly pulsating visual impression.

And an astonishing figure floated above that dark structure.

A colossal skeleton, imbued with holy light, that devours shadows.

The skeleton raised its head and calmly watched Yu Sheng fall from the crack in the earth's crust.

(End of this chapter)